Butter enjoyment of fun.

I play for fun. As you might expect, lots of people play for this reason. While lots of people do this, everybody has their own version of fun and of play. Some are super competitive, they will play to their hardest and without mercy, they will find this fun. Others are out to play but it is the journey rather then the outcome that defines their enjoyment. I am probably closer to both.

The recently released Super Street Fighter 4 (ssf4 for short) has put me in a parallel. It is sometimes fun to play with the mind set of total domination, but it is also fun to venture the capability of other characters in the game. The game has two modes of online play (there are more actual modes but I will explain that). A ranked mode which keeps track of your wellness of play via points systems, amount of victories, and other stuff. The other mode is non ranked play which does not contribute positively or negatively to your points but still keeps the other stuff around.

A problem arises because the only way I can play continuously with other human beings is through the ranked mode. While I can be competitive and play with a high degree of skill with certain characters, there are some characters that I like to play, just as an escape from the rigger's of the strategies of a couple of characters. Ranked mode is not the place to do this. The competitive part of me frowns upon playing in ranked mode this way as it will cause me to lose what ever have gained. Others playing in that mode commonly do not play with characters unfamiliar to them, but my impatience is large enough that any fun playing in non ranked modes is lost because of the wait I must undergo from my curiosity of other characters.

This problem would be solved if there was the inclusion of the player match mode found in Street Fighter 4, in which you can play online and no stats are kept. This problem would also be solved if I did not care about numbers and if I did not care if others cared about numbers, but I am just a lowly, shallow, self-conscious man.
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(not related but I just thought about it and the word 'fun' is strange. It sounds chinese, but is completely english. Being only three letters long it means so much. The letter combination it took makes it seen so insignificant and yet everyone knows the meaning.)

Transparent Seas

I was eating at taco del mar when this song came on; I actually forgot what the song is called, but it is by Jack Johnson and starts:

Your shadow walks faster than you.

What Jack talks about in the song is about a person who is lost by some reason, and is wandering through slowly.

I did not hear the whole song at that time but have heard it many times as it is in my mp3 player. But what impressed me this time is that while paying attention to the lyrics, Jack keep using these things that are inherently apart of you, your shadow, your reflection, to that you have lost yourself. Those things can't actually change but he uses thing imagery to convince yourself so.

He writes great lyrics, which has been lost on me since the melodies he creates are so relaxing.

At taco del mar I had a wet mondo burrito, that is a mondo burrito covered with enchilada sauce and cheese. I have never had it before, it was pretty good.

I am currently at a Starbucks drinking a double espresso over ice. It tastes like the many espressos I have had over the years. Later the grass on my lawn will suffer wounds as a cutting blade grinds their upper torso into tiny bits called mulch.

Planet saving tip 13

Right now I am waiting in a car near Virginia Mason Hospital. I hear a loud bang. I look to my left and see a tan Honda accord drive away leaving a black Acura RL with a mis-shapened side mirror. The driver of the tan accord; cares so deeply about this planet!

If I could only be as caring as that driver. Knowing that any extra time to write out insurance info will result in needless idling of the car's engine causing a significant amount of fuel to be burned and unlocking this carbon sink in to the air. If only more people would be like that driver, maybe these posts would be unnecessary.

Hello

What brings people happiness?

A lot of things.

It is raining right now, for some this could be it for them. In our old farming days rain was something to be thankful for.

We live in a time were we have a lot more ability to do fun things. If you think you know where I am going with this please tell me. And so with all this free time to enjoy the enviroment we now shun the rain as we do not like getting wet in clothing. We are happy to be outside with our time, dry.

But are people who are wet unhappy? They definitely could be. Can people in a slum find some moment in which they forget their poverty and enjoy there time?

Every one has a different view of everything.

In the statement above I almost left out a cruical word that would cause it to make no sense. I read it again, and corrected it. It now makes sense.

Bonus haiku:

The world we live
Neither is left or is right
Always is many.